Welfare States And Gender Inequality In Central And Eastern Europe

Author : Christina Klenner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782874521829
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare States and Gender Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe written by Christina Klenner and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on developments in the welfare states of the ten Central and Eastern European EU member states in the transformation process some 20 years after the end of state socialism. It also explores the shifts in gender relationships and inequalities, and tries to depict the interdependencies between these two processes. The contributors to this volume tackle the following main questions: how far are welfare states and gender regimes in these countries comparable with the types found in Western and Southern Europe? To what extend were traditional institutions and practices preserved under the new circumstances resulting from the system change? How have gender relations been affected by EU accession and welfare state change through the transformation process?

Author : Mary Daly
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788111265
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe written by Mary Daly and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender equality has been one of the defining projects of European welfarestates. It has proven an elusive goal, not just because of political opposition but also due to a lack of clarity in how to best frame equality and take account of family-related considerations. This wide-ranging book assembles the most pertinent literature and evidence to provide a critical understanding of how contemporary state policies engage with gender inequalities.

Author : Pascall, Gillian
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 184742144X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender regimes in transition in Central and Eastern Europe written by Pascall, Gillian and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding of welfare states has been much enriched by comparative work on welfare regimes and gender. This book uses these debates to illuminate the changing gender regimes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It has particular significance as countries in the region make the transition from communism and into a European Union that has issues of women's employment, work-life balance, and gender equality at the heart of its social policy. The analysis draws on quantitative comparative data, and on rich qualitative data from a new study of mothers in Polish households, illuminating the effects of changing welfare and gender relations from the perspective of those most directly affected - mothers of young children. This book is an important addition to the literature and is recommended to academics and students interested in the study of gender relations, welfare states, and international and comparative European social policy. The insights gained will also be of value to those engaged in welfare policy and practice.

Author : Gillian Pascall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781447302414
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Regimes in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe written by Gillian Pascall and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses work on welfare regimes and gender to illuminate the changing gender regimes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe making the transition into a European Union that has women's employment, work-life balance, and gender equality at the heart of its social policy.

Author : Demetrius S. Iatridis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313028788
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice and the Welfare State in Central and Eastern Europe written by Demetrius S. Iatridis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-04-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, Central and Eastern European states have had to confront fundamental changes in economic, social, and governmental structures. So far, many of these countries in transition from a command to a market-based system have experienced rapid deterioration of socioeconomic conditions and standards of living. Although there have been successes in some areas, such as greater political and consumer choices, the overall situation has reached crisis proportions, as evidenced by increased unemployment, crime, and family disorganization. The essays in this collection address significant issues dealing with the frameworks of social justice and equality, policies for families and women, implications for the welfare state, and the impact on health care. As such, the collection is invaluable for all scholars and researchers involved with contemporary Central and Eastern European public policy and social conditions.

Author : Gillian Pascall
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847426646
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Equality in the Welfare State? written by Gillian Pascall and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and accessible textbook analyses the male breadwinner model in terms of care, work, time, income and power, providing a framework which asks about policies and practices for gender equality in each of these. This new approach contextualises national policies and debates within comparative theoretical analysis and data.

Author : Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351944711
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development of Culture, Welfare States and Women's Employment in Europe written by Birgit Pfau-Effinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This refreshing volume introduces a theory for explaining cross-national differences in the social practice of women (and men) in the areas of family and employment. This provides a theoretical framework for the ensuing comprehensive cross-national analysis of the degree and forms of labour market integration of women in three European countries - Finland, West Germany and the Netherlands - from the 1950s until 2000. Cross-national differences are explained with a focus on cultural change and the development of welfare state, labour markets, the family and social movements. It is evident that change took place along different development paths that were based on deep-rooted historical differences in the cultural ideals of the family. Such historical differences and their explanations also form part of the analysis. The results of this survey contribute to the further development of cross-national sociology on social change, social and gender inequality, welfare state, labour markets and family structures.

Author : Joanna Regulska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351872389
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe written by Joanna Regulska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformations seen in women's active citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe mirror the social political and economic transformations in the region since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s. This book challenges the universal notion of 'citizenship' by focusing on the diversity of situations women in this region have found themselves in since the end of the 1980s, looking at the challenges and struggles they have faced to assert themselves as citizens and their citizenship rights. Featuring detailed case studies which demonstrate the social and political discrimination between women that still exists, the book will be of interest to academics and post-graduate students in women's/gender studies, political sociology and European studies.

Author : Gosta Esping-Andersen
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745643159
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incomplete Revolution written by Gosta Esping-Andersen and published by Polity. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to the new role of women; second, how we prepare our children for the knowledge economy; and, third, how we respond to the new demography.

Author : Francis G. Castles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019162828X
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State written by Francis G. Castles and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.